During the tenth edition of The Antigua Forum, Lenore Ealy, Senior Fellow for Communities at Charles Koch Institute, shared ideas with Will Ogilvie  about the impact civil society can have on social change. Ealy described civil society as the work of people associating together to solve problems, based on Vincent and Elionor Ostrom’s work. Later […]

In this UFM Talk, Luis Figueroa and Vít Jedlička talk about how to build a country from scratch in the 21st Century. They use Liberland as an example of this, a free republic located between Croatia and Serbia whose president is Vít Jedlička. Vít Jedlička explains that the Free Republic of Liberland started forming in […]

Estudiantes de primer año mantuvieron una conversación con Gabriel Calzada, rector de la Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM) y alumni de distintas facultades. Un espacio en el que conocieron la historia y los fundadores de la Casa de la Libertad, cuya misión es la enseñanza y difusión de los principios éticos, jurídicos y económicos de una […]

Ukraine is known as a country with great potential, but it has many issues that come from the soviet past and recent political events. Nataliya Melnyk, communications director of the Bendukidze Free Market Center, and Will Ogilvie, the host of this UFM talk, explored the background of this country, their latest revolution in 2014, as […]

Imagina un mundo donde el periodismo sensacionalista como el diario El Profeta sea considerado una fuente de información veraz, donde no se cuestione a los periodistas como Rita Skeeter aunque mientan o exageren la realidad y Voldemort controle el medio de comunicación de mayor prestigio. ¿Será que la libertad de expresión ha sufrido un retroceso […]

El doctor en Economía, Alberto Benegas Lynch (h), analizó el segundo capítulo del libro Los fundamentos de la libertad de Friedrich A. Hayek (1960). En esta octava UFM talks, se abordaron tres puntos importantes de la obra: conocimiento, definición de libertad y degradación del concepto de democracia. El autor de 27 libros, considera que el […]

Reshaping our future was the topic of the second UFM Talk, in which Eric Glustrom, founder of Watson Institute, along with María Kaltschmitt, founder of Zen Interactive Media shared their ideas in an exciting conversation moderated by Mónica de Zelaya, Dean of Facultad de Ciencias Económicas at UFM. Both participants started describing their interpretation of […]

Rachel Davidson Humphries, an educator with more than 10 years of experience in nontraditional education and master in learning design and technology, discussed The Fundamentals of Learning, a topic sometimes forgotten in the classroom when trying to innovate with new tools and technologies, due to the challenges that the pandemic has brought to education. This […]

La periodista y guionista, Loreto Caro-Valdes, nos acerca al pasado y presente de Chile. A través de la película Pacto de fuga (2020), expone su participación en este proyecto cinematográfico que se inspiró en el escape de 49 presos políticos de la Cárcel Pública de Santiago en 1990. Un hecho ocurrido mientras la dictadura de […]

There are around 20 Latin American countries that suffer corruption, lack of freedom, and have governments that make bad political actions. During this conference, Salinas expresses that these decisions are getting worse, and governments are not doing enough to solve this issue. Salinas expresses the tremendous challenge that Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, […]

Freedom, free market, and the rule of law are principles that face other issues such as socialism, government intervention, corruption, among others. Reason in Guatemala is an event hosted by the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in collaboration with Reason Foundation and LGBTQ for Liberty, which focuses on explaining the challenges of freedom. Reason Foundation is an […]

La activista y periodista cubana, Yoani Sánchez, describió el panorama económico actual de Cuba, las causas, consecuencias y las acciones necesarias desde el sector privado para salir de la bancarrota. El Gobierno de Cuba, enfrenta la crisis más grave de los últimos 20 años. Situación agravada por las restricciones económicas y comerciales de Estados Unidos […]